collegium

English

Noun

collegium (plural collegia or collegiums)

1. (in Russia) A committee or council
2. (in Ancient Rome) Any of several legal associations

Latin

Alternative forms

• conlēgium

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm

Proto-Italic *kom

Old Latin com

Latin cum

Latin con-

Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-

der.

Proto-Italic *legō

der.

Latin lēgō

Latin collēga

Proto-Italic *-jōs

Old Latin -ios

Latin -ius

Latin -ium

Latin collegium

collēga (“colleague”) +‎ -ium

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kolˈleː.ɡi.um/, [kɔlˈlʲeːɡiʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kolˈle.d͡ʒi.um/, [kolˈlɛːd͡ʒium]

Noun

collēgium n (genitive collēgiī or collēgī); second declension

1. colleagueship, (connection of associates, colleagues, etc.)
2. guild, corporation, company, society, college (concrete definition: persons united by the same office or calling or living by some common set of rules)
3. college (several senses)
4. school

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	collēgium	collēgia
Genitive	collēgiī collēgī1	collēgiōrum
Dative	collēgiō	collēgiīs
Accusative	collēgium	collēgia
Ablative	collēgiō	collēgiīs
Vocative	collēgium	collēgia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Derived terms

• collēgiālis
• collēgiārius
• collēgiātus

Related terms

• collēga

Descendants

• Old Lombard: coleo
• Sardinian: goddeju, boddeu, oddeu

Borrowings:

• → Catalan: col·legi
• → German: Kollegium, Kolleg
• → English: collegium
• → Friulian: coleç (adapted to mimic native sound-changes)
• → Indonesian: kolegium
• → Italian: collegio
• → Old French: college (see there for further descendants)
• → Piedmontese: colegi
• → Portuguese: colégio
• → Romanian: colegiu
• → Spanish: colegio
• → Swedish: kollegium
• → Welsh: coleg

References

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “collegium”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 2: C Q K, page 896

Further reading

• “collegium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• collegium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• collegium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “collegium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• collegium in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• “collegium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin